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    Diary from the Kurt Seelig Collection , 1939-1940

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    A particularly notable diary of ten-year-old Kurt Seelig, written between 1939 and 1940.Original archival material found in Box 1, Folder 2 of the Kurt Seelig Collection, AR 11115.Digital imageKurt Werner Seelig was born on April 9, 1929 in Schwedt/Oder, Germany. His parents, the merchant Heinz Simon Heinrich and Edith (née Tuch) Seelig, sent Kurt and his older brother Fritz on a Kindertransport to England in April 1939. Kurt was placed in a London hostel opened by Dr. Bernard Schlesinger (1897-1984), a prominent English pediatrician. Located at 26 Shepherds Hill, Highgate, twelve German-Jewish children lived under the Schlesinger's care until October 1939, when the children were removed from London to the countryside for their safety.Seelig's parents emigrated to Quito, Ecuador in 1941, via Russia and Japan, and in 1943 their children joined them there. After the war, Kurt immigrated to the United States, where he became a chef, while Frank stayed in Quito and became a businessman. Their parents returned to Berlin after the war, and lived in an old age home in Kantstrasse.Digitize

    Chronik der Familie Seelig.

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    Genealogy of the Seelig family, originally from Hanau, since ca. 1680Schluechter

    Michael Seelig Interview - Part 2

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    An oral history interview with Michael Seelig, Professor of Sociology, by Donald E. Flatt on the history of Morehead State University. Dr. Seelig was the former president of the campus chapter of the AAUP, chair of the Faculty Senate in 1987 and 1993 MSU Service Award winner

    "In silico" prediction of blood-brain barrier permeation and P-glycoprotein activity

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    P-glycoprotein is an ATP-dependent efflux transport protein which is highly expressed in many human tissues such as the intestinal epithelium and the blood-brain barrier, and is over-expressed in many cancer cells.1 This transporter carries a wide variety of chemically unrelated compounds. It binds them within the cell lipid membrane, and flips them to the outer leaflet or exports them to the extracellular medium.2 Since P-glycoprotein affects the distribution of many drugs, assessing the interactions between drugs and Pglycoprotein at an early stage of drug development is important. It has been shown that the binding of a drug to the transporter occurs in a two-step process.3{5 (i) The drug partitions from the extracellular environment to the lipid membrane, and after diffusion to the inner cytosolic leaflet of the bilayer, (ii) it binds to P-glycoprotein most likely via hydrogen bond formation. Different methods have been used to assess the lipid-water partition coefficient, such as isothermal titration calorimetry, and lipid monolayer insertion measurements. However, the lipid-water partition coefficient depends on the lipid used, and in turn on the lateral packing density of the lipid layer. Therefore an approach based on surface activity measurements was developed, which allows the prediction of the lipid-water partition coe�cient for membranes of different lateral packing densities.7 Measurements of the surface pressure of the drug in buffer solution as a function of concentration (Gibbs adsorption isotherm) yields the air-water partition coefficient (Kaw), the critical micellar concentration (CMC), and the cross-sectional area of the compound (AD), provided experiments are performed under conditions of minimal electrostatic repulsion. Since air has a dielectric constant close to that of the lipid core region of a membrane, there is a direct relationship between the partition of a drug into the air-water interface, and the partition into the lipid-water interface.8 The cross-sectional area, as well as the lipid-water partition coefficient (and by extension the air-water partition coefficient), are thus crucial parameters to assess the binding and diffusion of a drug into a lipid bilayer. In a first part of the thesis, I focused on the membrane binding step. Since the cross-sectional area of a compound is a crucial parameter for drug partitioning into the lipid bilayer, the quality of the data obtained by mean of surface activity measurements are most important. For this purpose, in a first step, I improved the calibration of the experimental settings, by assessing several factors like the evaporation or the solvent effect. In a second step, I developed computer routines for unbiased evaluation of these measurements. In a third step, I developed an algorithm to calculate the cross-sectional area of a compound oriented at a hydrophilic-hydrophobic interface; this algorithm has been calibrated on a set of measured data, in order to find from a conformational ensemble the conformation of the membrane-bound drug. In a second part of the thesis, I focused on the binding of a drug to P-glycoprotein. P-glycoprotein is monitored essentially by three types of assays, (i) the measurement of ATP hydrolysis activity of the transporter, (ii) a competition assay against calcein-AM, and (iii) a transcellular transport assay through polarized P-glycoprotein over-expressing cell monolayer. Based on a modular binding approach to assess the two-step binding of a drug to P-glycoprotein (Figure 1),5 I developed several rules to predict the outcome of these experimental assays. Each rule, predicting one particular assay, has been tested on experimental datasets. In a third part of the thesis, I developed a working interface to handle multiple structures of compounds, to calculate the new descriptors involved in the two-step binding of drugs to P-glycoprotein (membrane partitioning, and binding to the transporter), and to calculate the outcome of the prediction rules. Moreover the working interface has been designed in a way the user can easily define new rules, or even introduce a new multidrug transporter (e.g. the multidrug transporter MRP1). Starting from well characterized physical-chemical parameters, I developed a coherent ensemble of descriptors to assess by a rule-based approach the thermodynamics and kinetics of P-glycoprotein activation. This ensemble has been embedded in a customizable working interface, allowing easy evaluation of the in silico predictions

    Seelig-Dreidel-Moss Family Collection. 1847-1980

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    This collection contains three family trees tracking the descendants of Jules Bernard Seelig and Sigmund Seelig in various directions of their family tree. There is also a letter written by Sigmond Seelig providing residences of ancestors on the family trees. This material is accompanied by a document from the Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz regarding genealogical information for the Dreydel family of Bingen. Contains list of family members' "Old Names" and "New Names", from Jewish to Germanic names. There is also a Theilzettel document for Moses Halle (1847).Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize

    Kurt Seelig Collection 1925-2001

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    This collection contains materials by and about Kurt Seelig and his family. The majority relates to Kurt's time with Bernard and Winifred Schlesinger, who in 1939 opened a London hostel for 12 German-Jewish children that had arrived via Kindertransport. The collection contains mostly photocopies, except for the particularly notable diary of ten-year-old Kurt Seelig, written between 1939 and 1940.Kurt Werner Seelig was born on April 9, 1929 in Schwedt/Oder, Germany. His parents, the merchant Heinz Simon Heinrich and Edith (née Tuch) Seelig, sent Kurt and his older brother Fritz on a Kindertransport to England in April 1939. Kurt was placed in a London hostel opened by Dr. Bernard Schlesinger (1897-1984), a prominent English pediatrician. Located at 26 Shepherds Hill, Highgate, twelve German-Jewish children lived under the Schlesinger's care until October 1939, when the children were removed from London to the countryside for their safety.Seelig's parents emigrated to Quito, Ecuador in 1941, via Russia and Japan, and in 1943 their children joined them there. After the war, Kurt immigrated to the United States, where he became a chef, while Frank stayed in Quito and became a businessman. Their parents returned to Berlin after the war, and lived in an old age home in Kantstrasse."Judenporzellan", purchased in Berlin by Seelig's parents after World War II, was removed to the LBI Art and Objects Collection.Processeddigitize

    [Christus, Bogenschütze und Goethe] / Statue in Gips v. Müller, v. Seelig, Broce Statue v. Straube. Gest. v. Honeck

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    [CHRISTUS, BOGENSCHÜTZE UND GOETHE] / STATUE IN GIPS V. MÜLLER, V. SEELIG, BROCE STATUE V. STRAUBE. GEST. V. HONECK [Christus, Bogenschütze und Goethe] / Statue in Gips v. Müller, v. Seelig, Broce Statue v. Straube. Gest. v. Honeck (1) Illustration: Christus, Bogenschütze und Goethe (1

    Charles Longcope Jr. Turtle Creek Chorale Video Archive

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    Video footage from the Turtle Creek Chorale Collection (The Dallas Way). Video footage of the chorale's Christmas performance. The beginning of the performance is a skit, set up like a rehearsal where they are waiting for Tim Seelig, their artistic director and conductor to appear to start the concert. Seelig arrives and the show goes over many of their notable numbers from previous concerts. Midway through the concert, the chorale is joined by a small wind ensemble
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